Kingsley Amis - Life Quotes

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It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.

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Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life, a mark of the naive — or worse.

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Alun's life was coming to consist more and more exclusively of being told at dictation speed what he knew.

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Should you revisit us
Stay a little longer
And get to know the place...
On local life we trust
The resident witness
Not the royal tourist.

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All his faces were designed to express rage or loathing. Now that something had happened which really deserved a face, he had none to celebrate it with. As a kind of token, he made his Sex Life in Ancient Rome face.

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Whatever part drink may play in the writer's life, it must play none in his or her work.

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Should poets bicycle-pump the human heart
Or squash it flat?
Man's love is of man's life a thing apart;
Girls aren't like that.

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